For instance, the Chinese were greatly discriminated against being seen as the cause of economic decline, they were withheld citizenship rights, and to compound the injustice Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 banning immigration from China. However, no abuse was worse than that suffered by the Native American, being constantly made a mockery of by the government with their land being taken, barraged with disease, lack of food and shelter, families separated, constantly at war over things that the government promised but never held true to, and killed with lack of remorse. This very thing happened on November 29, 1864 when a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians were granted a place of safety only to have their men, women, children and elderly brutally murdered by a Colonel John M. Chivington and his militiamen, these men slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated 165 peaceful Indians this horrific atrocity was dubbed “The Sand Creek Massacre” (p. 831-832). These people were promised protection by Governor John Evans for being “friendly Indians” only for that promise not to mean anything and bring about warfare on the Central Plains that lasted the next three years (p. 832).